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July 11, 2017

Rest In Peace

LEFLORE COUNTY, Miss. — Military investigators picked through the still-smoking wreckage of a Marine Corps transport plane on Tuesday, trying to learn what caused the aircraft, part of a Reserve unit based in New York, to plunge into a soybean field in the Mississippi Delta, killing 16 service members.

The KC-130 plane burst into flames on impact Monday afternoon, leaving a charred furrow in the otherwise idyllic, deep-green landscape of waving bean, corn and cotton plants along United States Highway 82, and scattered fiery debris and bodies across farmland and rural roads.

Among the first witnesses at the scene was David Habig, a crop-duster pilot who flew low over the wreckage. “Lo and behold, all I see are bodies out in the bean field,” he said. “They were everywhere. It was horrific. I’d never seen anything like it.”

The plane, carrying 15 Marines and one Navy corpsman, belonged to Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452, or VMGR-452, nicknamed the Yankees, a Reserve unit based at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., the Marine Reserve said on Tuesday. The flight, which took off from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, was headed to Naval Air Facility El Centro in California and was transporting personnel and equipment, the Reserve said in a statement.

No information on what may have caused the crash, but investigation and evaluation has an unusual hazard:

Officials said they were proceeding cautiously with recovery efforts because of the flames and the fear of exploding ordnance.

“Equipment on board included various small arms ammunition and personal weapons,” the Marine Reserve statement said. “An explosive ordnance disposal team is at the scene as a precaution in the interest of safety.”

Comments

anyone else find it curious that this Russian lawyer who is allegedly an agent of the Russian government tasked to collude with the Trump team neither writes nor reads english (according to her sworn court declaration)?

Looks like (now retired) Prof AA is going to be all over this "Russian collusion" thing, and some of her commenters are posting valuable links.
Six posts on the subject since Sunday.

Ig, you posting at Althouse?

IgnatzEsq said...
As an aside, I see Benghazi referenced in several of these chains. One thing I never see, but think I should be seeing, is that Benghazi only happened because Obama, on the advice of Clinton, and without congressional approval bombed the government of Libya out of existence for no discernible reason. That destabilization was a direct cause, meaning Hillary can and should shoulder much of the blame. Between the Libya bombing and the Iraq war vote I couldn't ever vote for Hillary.

True this:Gusty Winds said...
If Putin did intend to destabilize our democracy, Trump is not his pawn. The feverish attempt to overturn a national election by the media and the Dems is the most destabilizing threat. Who is giving Putin a bigger footprint on the world stage, Trump or CNN?

Trump pisses off the left and the entrenched establishment more than wire hangers pissed off Joan Crawford.

Civil War it is. And it's on the Ds--with a HUGE amount of help from GOPe.

Thanks for doing this post TM. As reservists these people had real lives part from the military. No wonder it is taking so long to reach the families. RIP.

Last night disney's corrupt news pravda devoted its first 12 minutes of the broadcast to this don jr story. They are trying to create horror at the trump admin. That probably amounted to 60% of the entire broadcast without commercials.

Peter-so glad to hear about your 'boy'. I was reliving in my mind red's thrashing when they brought her back from post op and remembering just how hard it was to see a child hurt like that even if they are in their late teens.

It does get better fairly quickly. We brought in gourmet cakes for the staff each day she was there that they kept in the break room. That made her and us quite popular as nurses not even assigned to her would pop in. Plus enough people had sent red flowers, including florida neighbors, that her room smelled like a greenhouse.

"One thing I never see, but think I should be seeing, is that Benghazi only happened because Obama, on the advice of Clinton, and without congressional approval bombed the government of Libya out of existence for no discernible reason."

The excuse to go in was that Gaddafi, or one of his sons, was quoted as saying that they would kill everyone in Benghazi. This was shown to be false.

I found this at Floppingaces.

"For decades, he has demonstrated a willingness to use brute force through his sponsorship of terrorism against the American people as well as others, and through the killings that he has carried out within his own borders. And just yesterday, speaking of the city of Benghazi — a city of roughly 700,000 people — he threatened, and I quote: “We will have no mercy and no pity” — no mercy on his own citizens.
The truth?

Nor did Khadafy ever threaten civilian massacre in Benghazi, as Obama alleged. The “no mercy’’ warning, of March 17, targeted rebels only, as reported by The New York Times, which noted that Libya’s leader promised amnesty for those “who throw their weapons away.’’ Khadafy even offered the rebels an escape route and open border to Egypt, to avoid a fight “to the bitter end.’’

I don't know why, but your suggestion worked. Turned on computer this morning and all was well. Cue Twilight Zne music.

However, I have been lax in backing up my filed, so will get a thumb drive today and download those, so I don't lose pictures, phone numbers and such. I don't keep a lot of important things on my computer, but I would be sad to lose the pictures and terribly inconvenienced by losing the few things I do.

placing your PCCongressman in front of the tracks of a D-8 Caterpillar bulldozer and engaging forward and then reverse ~5 times and then dropping the PCCongressman into one of those abandoned flooded limestone quarries Indiana seems so blessed with [as is my part of CA] is remarkably effective

The Reddit boys have been busy. Russian lawyer gal's associate worked for FBI. This is a May 2016 story they dug up. On one hand, everybody in DC knows everybody else. On the other hand, this looks like everyone except Trump is colluding.

That's the problem Janet. That's a supposedly Conservative think tank tied to the same philanthropy funding all these other supposedly "Conservative' think tanks.

Behind the label is unfortunately the template known as Marxist Humanism. I am actually quite sure as I have traced all this back and forth and have been talking on my blog with someone from Oz on what is going on in Finland and then bringing it back to this agenda.

when you are cowed by the DC establishment re Special Counsel, they will eat you up one bite at a time. By not firing the SC, there will be more taken down. Last night did not go well. while there was no crime, not even close, it was sloppy, amateur hour kind of stuff.

I know this but as one who followed Watergate through the papers and on TV back then, I can assure you that the public thought the Watergate crimes were monstrous and the press has done a pretty good job currently of creating the idea that there ARE crimes.

It may be that Trump is waiting until it is obvious that Mueller is not really interested in anything except a scalp from the administration.

The appointment of the special counsel may or may not have been unexpected. I don't know. I just am operating on the assumption that Trump, Bannon, Cohen, Miller, and the rest know what they are doing.

The Washington Post has a story up today about how the administration is under siege, which is ridiculous. It's the usual unnamed White House sources (which is probably why Trump tweeted about Fake media making things up) and is right out of the Watergate playbook.

I have been a Trump supporter since early on, I am sort of immune to the "now he's finished" stories which seem to crop up about every 2 weeks. Maybe I live in a fool's paradise, but no one with any influence thought he would win, so I am going to stick with what I believe.

Comment from Conservative Treehouse. I do not have cable, so cannot verify, but the poster has been accurate before:

"Well, the story/set up is already falling apart. Emin and Aras Alaprov’s lawyer just went on CNN and stated that everything that Ron Goldstone wrote in email was false. The elder Alaprov said it was ridiculous to think that he would have a meeting with a Crown prosecutor and pass information to his son Emin,a pop star who would then give information to a music industry publicist. He said he would have called Trump himself. The lawyer went on to say that Ron Goldstone was “out of his element” and made the whole thing up to get his friend (the lawyer) a meeting with Trump Jr. Now, Goldstone will not take any interviews! The look on Chris Coumo’s face was priceless!"

No, I'm still stateside, but scrambling to get a bunch of stuff done, before our departure next week. I've got your "two words of advice" in my travel notes, along with recommendations from GUS and mike in Houston -- for which many thanks!

Retweeted /pol/ News Forever (@polNewsForever):
In 2016 China wanted a "private, off the record" talk w/ Clinton's campaign.
According to the Dem's standard, this is evidence of collusion. https://t.co/vXWs3Vl7rA

Someone on FB expressed my exact thoughts on any American looking to find more info on the crimes of Hillary and the other leftists who work against the US. They deserve A medal. Instead we have an entire political party and half and the other one working against anyone trying to protect America.

Ah, "belittling." Sorry! Didn't get the joke, but then mornings are not my best time of day.

Clarice:

TM used to default to ™ (trademark) on my computer too. If you don't have a preference panel where you can turn that automatic conversion off, you can usually revert back to caps if you press undo (Command-Z on a Mac) immediately after you've typed TM, before you type anything else, including a space. You're essentially undoing the conversion.

Seriously, perhaps the most interesting item in that CTH piece is the fact her Facebook postings were virulently anti-Trump. The whole thing sounds like a set-up to get FISA warrants. Even if she was genuinely interested in the Magnitsky business, there would have been little point to meeting with a candidate who hadn't even gotten the nomination yet, and was believed to have little chance of winning.